{"id":237106,"date":"2026-04-06T03:23:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/mavericks-cooper-flagg-joins-exclusive-club-with-another-monster-game\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T03:23:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:23:36","slug":"mavericks-cooper-flagg-joins-exclusive-club-with-another-monster-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/mavericks-cooper-flagg-joins-exclusive-club-with-another-monster-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks&#8217; Cooper Flagg joins exclusive club with another monster game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Cooper Flagg is making a pretty big statement in his quest for the NBA&#8217;s Rookie of the Year Award. After scoring 51 points for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/dallas_mavericks\/77\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> in their loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/orlando_magic\/122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orlando Magic\u00a0<\/a>on Friday night, he followed it up with a 45-point effort in a 134-128 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/los_angeles_lakers\/89\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>That two-game stretch is nearly unmatched in NBA history for a rookie, and puts him in some pretty exclusive company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Cooper Flagg joins exclusive club with great two-game stretch<\/h2>\n<p>With his 96 points over two games, Flagg joins only Wilt Chamberlain as the only rookies in NBA history to have at least 96 points over any two-game stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Anytime you are on a list that includes only Wilt Chamberlain, it is a pretty good sign you have done something significant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/mavericks_cooper_flagg_joins_exclusive_club_with_another_monster_game\/s1_13132_43691347\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooper Flagg is making a pretty big statement in his quest for the NBA&#8217;s Rookie of the Year Award. After scoring 51 points for the Dallas Mavericks in their loss to the Orlando Magic\u00a0on Friday night, he followed it up with a 45-point effort in a 134-128 win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-237106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}